English Online Dictionary. What means tm? What does tm mean?
English
Adverb
tm (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tomorrow.
Chinese
Pronunciation
Phrase
tm
- Initialism of 他媽／他妈 (tāmā).
Egyptian
Etymology
Compare with Hebrew תַּם (tam, “to be complete, finished”), Arabic تمام (tamām, “complete; completeness”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: tem
Verb
2-lit.
- (intransitive) to be complete
- (transitive) to complete, to finish
- (catenative, with a verb in the negatival complement) to not do, to not be
Inflection
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Noun
m
- everything, totality, completion
Inflection
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Proper noun
m
- the god Atum
Alternative forms
Based on the forms jtm and tmw, some authors interpret the god’s name as jtmw, a noun of action derived from the verb tm (“to finish, complete”), thus literally meaning ‘the finisher’; however, the most common writings of the name only explicitly show the consonants tm.
Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 147, 174, 220.
Turkish
Phrase
tm
- (text messaging) Initialism of tamam (“okay”).